WordPress developer
Location: GB, LND, Westminster
Department: DSD

Company profile:
The Ministry of Justice is establishing a new Digital Services Division (DSD), the first of its kind in a Government department, tasked with transforming justice services through digital transformation. The DSD is at the centre of MoJ, setting and coordinating the digital strategy across the department, its agencies and arms-length bodies and supporting the Government strategy to move services and processes to digital by default.The DSD’s aim is to make the justice system simpler, clearer and easier for the citizen to engage with, to build trust and to put users at the heart of this transformation. It does this by working with around 50 organisations including Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service, The National Offender Management Service, The Youth Justice Board, The Legal Services Commission, The Office for the Public Guardian and working closely with the Government Digital Service, the engine room of digital government service provision. Once established, MoJ’s Digital Services Division will comprise around 35 mobile and highly skilled digital professionals based at the Ministry’s HQ in Petty France. They will form a number of specialised digital teams covering digital strategy, policy, business transformation, content, user experience design and web development.

Job description:
We are looking for a talented WordPress developer to manage the migration of a number of websites from a legacy content management system to WordPress.You will be responsible for the scoping, migration and build of a number of existing stakeholder websites, including working with the business to create a requirements specification that will include a limited number of functional and aesthetic enhancements. You will also be expected to create some training materials for use by the editor community and put in place a robust support model to provide on-going help and support to these content editors.optimise, support and improve existing WordPress installationswork with business contacts to baseline requirements for the migration of website content from RedDot 7.5 (or flat HTML) to WordPressdesign and build responsive web and mobile products using WordPress templates, modifications and plugins to serve a variety of user needsauthor editor-focussed training materials for non-technical WordPress editors and members of staffprovide telephonic and face-to-face support to WordPress editorswork with DevOps staff to facilitate hosted WordPress platform on Amazon Web Services (EC2)maintain, patch and support WordPress environments for both new business migrations and legacy WordPress instancesundertake non-WordPress related PHP-based projects (both new and existing) as and when requiredbe involved in the wider web development community, identifying good practices that we can adopt and sharing our experiences with othersevaluate development work for quality, assure own work and peer review that of other developersembrace the use of agile methodologies and test-driven development and embed these in team practice

Requirements:
Skills and experiencesolid experience of:web application development and deployment skills including server administration and configuration, with a particular focus on WordPress and associated technologies (PHP, MySQL, Apache)custom plugin developments, custom theming, plugin modifications, WP installation, hostingadvanced Wordpress Developments, Mobile WP websitesfront-end technologies including HTML 4/5, CSS 2/3, JavaScript (incl. JQuery libraries)practical experience of user-centred design and agile development a big plusexperience of Linux platform developmentworking knowledge of Zend Framework (v1 and v2) and GitHub would be advantageousexperience of CMS migrationsconfident communicator, adept at explaining technical issues to non-technical colleagues including senior stakeholders and advocating for more effective approaches to digitising servicesexpertise in open source principles, platforms and languagesactive interest in new digital technologies and continuous education

Benefits:
This is a daily rate contract for a limited period of time. Rate and duration to be discussed following an interview of successful candidates.